[hackerspaces] how to deal with tired staff, with hackespaces blues

[matt]

ftr I laughed at the rant.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:48 PM, . <whipboi at hotmail.com> wrote:

> You mean to tell me you were unable to work the word bourgeois into the
> Pangaia Project? I think my previous tirade also sums up this piece of work:
> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-July/008163.html
>
> With my apologies to Florencia for getting off-topic, that is all.
> -boi
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:40 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Florencia Edwards <floev22 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear hackerspaces, how do you deal with a tired staff. I'm one of them, it
>
> seems like we work work work, and every day there are less members, less
>
> people willing to give something back to the space and  we get the feeling
>
> that the majority just wants to take and doesn't share , wants discounts,
>
> and  to get  free materials but they never give anything to anyone. There
>
> are  people that think we are millionaires and want to take part of the cut
>
> any way they can.
>
>
> Florencia,
>
> Thanks for writing this message.  This is an issue that, despite being
> solved in theory, has not been able to catch up with those like
> yourself who deal with the concrete situation, as it stands NOW.
>
> There are two issues:  scaling for hackerspaces will require a new
> infrastructure that goes beyond the normal business mindset of
> matching expenses with revenue.
>
> The other issue is that nearly everyone doesn't realize how this
> nascent economy is really *the* solution to a problem which nearly no
> leader has addressed.  Obama, for example, knows that he hasn't solved
> the economic problems (for example, issues raised in the Occupy
> movement), but yet no leader has sought out those who DO know how to
> solve the problems.  Hackerspaces are part of the solution, but you
> need the narrative that conveys how important it is, so the community
> starts working for YOU, rather than you working for it.  By
> "community" I mean the whole city (government, academic, and
> commercial sectors) working to help make you successful.
>
> I have a comprehensive package for selling the hackerlab/makerspace
> paradigm to those with the assets and power, *along with* the
> tech/infrastructure to facilitate the movement to make it accelerate
> to self-sustainability.  Contact me if you need help -- or read the
> pages at pangaia.sf.net.
>
> Any advice, or just share our pain hehe, we should make hackerspaces blues.
>
>
> Hopefully, I'm not too late.... ;^)
>
> Mark Janssen
> St. Paul, MN
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